{"id":207,"date":"2009-11-02T15:12:48","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T22:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfo.markbaileyco.com\/?p=207"},"modified":"2009-11-02T15:12:48","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T22:12:48","slug":"taking-the-life-out-of-lifo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/11\/02\/taking-the-life-out-of-lifo\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Life out of LIFO"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TakingFor many companies the transition to IFRS will not result in a major change… the big exception is in the manufacturing and retail industries, as IFRS does not allow the use of LIFO (the Last In First Out method of accounting for inventory). Because LIFO treats the last item to be purchased as the first item to be sold, the use of LIFO generally increases the cost of goods sold during periods of inflation.\u00a0 This reduces a company’s assets and earnings, but can result in large tax savings. It is because of this dichotomy that the IRS requires businesses to use LIFO for their book accounting records and financial statements if they wish to use it for tax purposes. Additionally, use of LIFO is generally restricted to mid-to-large sized companies, as it requires additional administrative work to track multiple LIFO layers for each type of inventory, and to prepare tax Uniform Capitalization adjustments on each layer.<\/p>\n

Enter IFRS (from 2014 to 2016 for publicly traded companies – transition dates for privately held businesses have not yet been announced). Exit LIFO. \u00a0If companies can\u00a0no longer use LIFO for book accounting purposes, they\u00a0will not be able to use it for tax accounting. This will give rise to a flood of paperwork to the IRS, as each company requests\u00a0permission to change\u00a0accounting method (which must be formally requested, even though the change is required and unwanted). More importantly,\u00a0it will \u00a0result in a huge income tax liability for nearly all companies required to make the transition.<\/p>\n

So far the IRS has not offered any hint of resolution on this\u00a0matter… and it looks like our manufacturers and retailers may pay the price.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For many companies the transition to IFRS will not result in a major change… the big exception is in the manufacturing and retail industries, as IFRS does not allow the use of LIFO (the Last In First Out method of accounting for inventory). Because LIFO treats the last item to be purchased as the first … Continue reading “Taking the Life out of LIFO”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[12,23,48,20,127],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tax","tag-accounting","tag-assets","tag-ifrs","tag-lifo","tag-uniform-capitalization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excelsisaccounting.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}